Welcome to 10th grade Art with Ms. Cat. Here is my email: cbrooks@lapazschool.org
First, a little bit about me:
I moved to Costa Rica from New Mexico in the United States specifically to work at La Paz. I've been teaching art K-8 for over 13 years and have taught many workshops, after school programs, and museum classes for students. It's my first time teaching IB, so we will be learning together. I look forward to working with you this year.
Week of August 29th- September 2nd
This week we will be discussing/ reviewing artists Vik Munoz and JR who work with themes of peace, sustainability and bringing about positive change in the world. You might remember these two artists from last year if you had class with Miss Lizzie. We'll be discussing and reviewing the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design. You will begin documenting your artistic process in a visual journal.
Question for the week: What makes art "great art"?
Week of September 5th-9th
We will continue to work with charcoal and portraits this week. Looking at artist JR's big portraits and big projects.
Week of September 12-16th
This week we will work with the still life in charcoal on a larger paper. We will also look at samples from a Visual Journal page and learn how to reflect on our artwork using art vocabulary.
Art Vocabulary/ Concepts so far: portraiture, still life, proportion, perspective, shading, toning, value/value scale, line of symmetry, geometric shapes, overlapping, contrast, highlights, shadows
Week of September 19th-23rd
Work continues on exploration of portrait or still life genres in students' choice of medium (pencil, colored pencil, pastel, watercolor)
Next assignment: abstract painting with monochromatic, complementary and accent colors
September 21st- value scales
Art vocabulary: tints, shades, monochromatic, complementary colors, value scale, pure color hue, emphasis, rhythm, movement
Week of October 3rd-7th-
Continue to work on abstract painting Week of October 10th-14th
finish abstract painting Week of October 17th-21st
- writing about your origins: What people have influenced you throughout your life? Are there any particular events in your life that have helped to form a part of the person you are today? What interests, hobbies, and experiences have been important to you? Reflect upon your personal and cultural identity.
Google slide presentation- Woodblock and Linoleum Printmaking Week of October 24th-28th
-working with paper cutting and stencils (Dia de los Muertos influence)
- same design for Origins project can be used (experimenting with the same idea in different media) or you can try a new idea Week of October 31- November 4th
-activity: making observations and interpretations about ancient artifacts
-experiment with printing your image with black and red ink
- experiment with hand-coloring dry prints with colored pencil, experiment with creating a background with marker before printing
Week of November 7th- November 11th
-finish Origins printmaking project
- learn about signing and curating your prints
- write about what you learned through the printmaking process and describe the process using the following printmaking vocabulary words:
image transfer process using chalk pastel, linoleum plate, ink, brayer, carving tools
Ancient Art and Artifacts Culture Study: Small Group Project
With your group, you will make a Google slide presentation containing 5 slides plus a bibliography page from one of the choices below. Please share the presentation with Miss Cat on GoogleDrive by the due date (to be announced). You will discuss your research and answer questions in front of our class. Here is your chance to share your knowledge!
Group 1; Reed Loona Martina, Sebastian (Middle Kingdom Egypt)
Group2: Alejandra Mayan Willa Daniel (rock art from Australia)
Group 3: Ana Barbara Henry Moritz (Japanese pottery)
Group 4: Fausto Samuel Mileidy, Rafaela (Mayan)
Group 5: Hazel Seth Jordan Joshua (Babylonian)
Choices:
cave art from Cantabria, Spain or Lascaux, France (2 or 3 different caves)
Babylonian art including cylinder seals
Sumarian art
Middle Kingdom Egyptian (compare 2-3 different works)
Venus of Hohle Fels (contrast with 2 other Venus figures) check out the Tan Tan Venus controversy
Stone Age art in Sulawesi, Indonesia- (examine 2 different art forms)
tribes in Costa Rica (choose 2)
rock art from Kimberly, Australia
Mayan artwork from Mexico and Guatemala
Jomon pottery of Japan
Guidelines:
must have a title page with the names of the group members and some of the artifacts (yes this counts as one of your pages!)
• carry out research from a range of different sources (at least 3, not including Wikipedia)
• analyze the cultural contexts in which the selected pieces were created (talk about the time/place/ culture of the work)
• identify the formal qualities of the selected pieces (formal analysis using Elements and Principles)
• interpret the function and purpose of the selected pieces (why was it made? what was it used for? purpose within the society?)
*Must have a map of where the artifact was found or the area where the cultural group lived, must have a reasonably *reliable date when artifact was created.
*Presentation must be in your own words (no copy and paste) with all sources cited
*What should your audience know about this culture?
Week of November 14th-18th
Begin final project
curate your prints- hand in 3 different versions with a title and signature in pencil underneath each image
Final Project: Apply what you have learned. Your final piece of art for the trimester will be made using any of the following media:
charcoal
acrylic paint or watercolor paint
chalk pastel
linoleum printmaking
paper cutting and stencil
Your theme will be thinking about Life Cycles, Origins, Culture, or Rites of Passage. Think about what you want to do. Write down some ideas first. before beginning the sketching process. Next you will have a mini-conference with me and then you can get started on your final piece. You may be INSPIRED by a particular artist or their technique. You may not copy an image from the internet. I will provide some artists for you to investigate when you tell me what you are interested in making.
*Due by the end of this trimester- Tuesday November 28th end of class
1. stencil/ papel picado paper cutting project final version and experimentations
2. three curated prints with title and signature and experimentations- name on the back of everything
3. final project
4. completed Ancient Artifact/ Culture group project- make sure your name is at the bottom of each slide so I can keep track of who did what
5. artist statement for the piece you will hang up for Night of the Arts
requirements for the artist statement: what medium is the piece (example; spray paint and cut paper or charcoal drawing) what was your inspiration for the piece, any challenges you faced, how were you successful?
Trimester 2
Week of January 2-6 Investigation of Surrealist artists: Salvador Dali, Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Dorthea Tanning, Wilfredo Lam, Rene Magritte, Yves Yanguey, Georgio di Chirico, Leonora Carrington
-Surrealist collage in your Visual Journal
Choose 3 of the artists to investigate- do a Google image search
Choose your favorite from the 3 artists. In your Visual Journal (your sketchbook) write a definition of Surrealism in your own words. Next (on a separate piece of paper) take some notes about your artist and some of their pieces. Why is the artist interesting to you? What are some of the themes the artist works with (what is the art about). Describe one piece from the artist. What do you notice about it? Due Wednesday January 11th: Group Googledoc on Ancient Artifacts and Culture AND journal work above - Paint or collage a background for 2 opposite pages of your Visual Journal, hand-write the information about your artist. Add two pictures of your artist's work (can be black and white and hand colored OR sketches)
Week of January 16-20 Choose either a small section or a large section of your collage to copy as a pencil drawing. Add VALUE by shading with your pencil alternatively, make this a charcoal drawing
due Friday January 20th- 2 pages in your Visual Journal (your sketchbook) on your artist including: information about your artist, your artist's name, photocopies of the artist's work, some color in the background. You may also make some sketches of your artist's images. The journal pages should be attractive and incorporate color.
Week of 23-27 due Wednesday January 25th- completed pencil drawing in class Wednesday January 25th Ancient Artifact Presentations
Week of January 30th-February 3rd The Sky is the Limit Project- Political Art Project If you had an unlimited budget for materials, any space you wanted to use, and enough help to make your project happen, what would it look like?
Political Art: How have artists acted as agents for change throughout history?
3 pages in your Visual Journal:
page 1 Brainstorm political topics as a class, write on a page in your Visual Journal, choose one topic you want to focus on for your piece of art
pages 2 and 3- Project Planning Pages- work on developing ideas around your topic (sketches, collage, printed photos from the internet)
questions to figure out:
1. What medium or media will you use? metal? glass? paper? wood? video installation?
2. Is there a specific message you want to communicate about your topic or do you only want to create AWARENESS and information around the topic?
3. Where will your piece of art be located? How can you use the space effectively?
4. How can you engage your audience in multiple ways? Can you walk around your piece? Can you touch it? Taste it? Smell it? Hear it
February 17th- Final Project Planning pages for "Sky's the Limit" due beginning of class February 17th- Begin paper mache project. New notebook page titled: "Paper Mache Animal Trophy Project"- write down what animal you want to make. We will add decorating ideas to this page later. Today we'll make the armature out of paper and tape, possibly adding some strips of glue mixed with water. Next week will continue with sculpting.
February 20th- 24th- continue with paper mache project February 27th- March 3rd- continue with paper mache project
WELCOME to TRIMESTER 3 *Reminder- Art is now only ONE day every OTHER week
April 21st- Today you will be making a drawing of an animal with chalk pastel. Review of the Color Wheel/ Color Theory focusing on monochromatic and the tints and shades. Chalk pastel techniques. Introduction to Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Evaluate method of art critique.
May 5th_ Art Critique
Choose 1 of the following works of art to Analyze. You will use the handout as a guideline. You will use the same method we followed to discuss "Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh. You may work alone or with a partner.
1. "What the Water Gave Me"- Frida Kahlo
2. "Nighthawks at the Diner"- Edward Hopper Seth, Joshua
3. "Guernica"- Pablo Picasso Ana Barbara, Ale
4. "The Raft of the Medusa"- Theodore Gericault Samuel
5. "Judith Beheading Holofernes"- Artemisia Gentileschi Henry, Mileidy
6. "Christina's World"- Andrew Wyeth Loona
7. " The Great Wave off Kanagawa"- Hokusai Rafa, Fausto, Mayan
8. "The Sleeping Gypsy"- Henry Rousseau Sebastian
9. " The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"- Albrecht Durer
10. "The Child's Bath"- Mary Cassatt
11. "at the Moulin Rouge" Toulouse L'Trec
Use the worksheet below to analyze your chosen piece of art
May 19h- DUE: Art Critique
In class you will be doing some sketching around the campus. You will then take the sketch and turn it into a larger, more complete drawing. We will focus on space, perspective, focal point and look at specific examples of landscape art.
May 26th- BUSINESS CLASS
May 31st- * extra art class begin watercolor paintings
June 2nd- work on watercolor paintings
June 9th- BUSINESS CLASS
June 16th-
DUE: watercolor landscape
- In class: liquid watercolors with oil pastel and sewing- figurative art
- choose artists for Art Critque #2
choices:
Andrew Wyeth
Jean- Michel Basquiat
Kiki Smith
Ana Mendiata
Georg Baselitz
Gustave Klimt
Amy Cutler
Assignment: Art Critique # 2
Send to me In a Google doc:
1. picture of your chosen artwork with:title of the artwork, artist, medium, date, dimensions
2. information about the artist and how the artists use the figure in his or her work
3. Formal Analysis- describe the artwork with as much detail as you can: includes the shapes, lines, colors, take about the composition (how everything is arranged in the artwork)
4. What is happening in the picture? What do you think the artist is trying to communicate with this work? How can you personally connect to the work?
This should be a full page of non-repetitive information
June 23rd- Art Critique needs to be sent to me by Monday June 26th- before you leave for your field trip Both completed watercolor paintings: landscape and figure are due by Monday, July 3rd at the latest!
Welcome to 10th grade Art with Ms. Cat. Here is my email: cbrooks@lapazschool.org
First, a little bit about me:
I moved to Costa Rica from New Mexico in the United States specifically to work at La Paz. I've been teaching art K-8 for over 13 years and have taught many workshops, after school programs, and museum classes for students. It's my first time teaching IB, so we will be learning together. I look forward to working with you this year.
Week of August 29th- September 2nd
This week we will be discussing/ reviewing artists Vik Munoz and JR who work with themes of peace, sustainability and bringing about positive change in the world. You might remember these two artists from last year if you had class with Miss Lizzie. We'll be discussing and reviewing the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design. You will begin documenting your artistic process in a visual journal.
Question for the week: What makes art "great art"?
Week of September 5th-9th
We will continue to work with charcoal and portraits this week. Looking at artist JR's big portraits and big projects.
Week of September 12-16th
This week we will work with the still life in charcoal on a larger paper. We will also look at samples from a Visual Journal page and learn how to reflect on our artwork using art vocabulary.
Art Vocabulary/ Concepts so far: portraiture, still life, proportion, perspective, shading, toning, value/value scale, line of symmetry, geometric shapes, overlapping, contrast, highlights, shadows
Week of September 19th-23rd
Work continues on exploration of portrait or still life genres in students' choice of medium (pencil, colored pencil, pastel, watercolor)
Next assignment: abstract painting with monochromatic, complementary and accent colors
September 21st- value scales
Art vocabulary: tints, shades, monochromatic, complementary colors, value scale, pure color hue, emphasis, rhythm, movement
September 28th-
Abstract/ non-objective art presentation Google Slides
Students sketch an abstract composition for a painting and work with the tints and shades to realize a painting based upon one color and its complement
Here is a link to the presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/114Iuit3UncWyti_UTCESX5ZkoZlWQOdIOlWYVZznIFU/edit#slide=id.p
Week of October 3rd-7th-
Continue to work on abstract painting
Week of October 10th-14th
finish abstract painting
Week of October 17th-21st
- writing about your origins: What people have influenced you throughout your life? Are there any particular events in your life that have helped to form a part of the person you are today? What interests, hobbies, and experiences have been important to you? Reflect upon your personal and cultural identity.
Google slide presentation- Woodblock and Linoleum Printmaking
Week of October 24th-28th
-working with paper cutting and stencils (Dia de los Muertos influence)
- same design for Origins project can be used (experimenting with the same idea in different media) or you can try a new idea
Week of October 31- November 4th
-activity: making observations and interpretations about ancient artifacts
-experiment with printing your image with black and red ink
- experiment with hand-coloring dry prints with colored pencil, experiment with creating a background with marker before printing
Week of November 7th- November 11th
-finish Origins printmaking project
- learn about signing and curating your prints
- write about what you learned through the printmaking process and describe the process using the following printmaking vocabulary words:
image transfer process using chalk pastel, linoleum plate, ink, brayer, carving tools
Ancient Art and Artifacts Culture Study: Small Group Project
With your group, you will make a Google slide presentation containing 5 slides plus a bibliography page from one of the choices below. Please share the presentation with Miss Cat on GoogleDrive by the due date (to be announced). You will discuss your research and answer questions in front of our class. Here is your chance to share your knowledge!
Group 1; Reed Loona Martina, Sebastian (Middle Kingdom Egypt)
Group2: Alejandra Mayan Willa Daniel (rock art from Australia)
Group 3: Ana Barbara Henry Moritz (Japanese pottery)
Group 4: Fausto Samuel Mileidy, Rafaela (Mayan)
Group 5: Hazel Seth Jordan Joshua (Babylonian)
Choices:
cave art from Cantabria, Spain or Lascaux, France (2 or 3 different caves)
Babylonian art including cylinder seals
Sumarian art
Middle Kingdom Egyptian (compare 2-3 different works)
Venus of Hohle Fels (contrast with 2 other Venus figures) check out the Tan Tan Venus controversy
Stone Age art in Sulawesi, Indonesia- (examine 2 different art forms)
tribes in Costa Rica (choose 2)
rock art from Kimberly, Australia
Mayan artwork from Mexico and Guatemala
Jomon pottery of Japan
Guidelines:
must have a title page with the names of the group members and some of the artifacts (yes this counts as one of your pages!)
• carry out research from a range of different sources (at least 3, not including Wikipedia)
• analyze the cultural contexts in which the selected pieces were created (talk about the time/place/ culture of the work)
• identify the formal qualities of the selected pieces (formal analysis using Elements and Principles)
• interpret the function and purpose of the selected pieces (why was it made? what was it used for? purpose within the society?)
*Must have a map of where the artifact was found or the area where the cultural group lived, must have a reasonably *reliable date when artifact was created.
*Presentation must be in your own words (no copy and paste) with all sources cited
*What should your audience know about this culture?
Week of November 14th-18th
Begin final project
curate your prints- hand in 3 different versions with a title and signature in pencil underneath each image
Final Project: Apply what you have learned. Your final piece of art for the trimester will be made using any of the following media:
charcoal
acrylic paint or watercolor paint
chalk pastel
linoleum printmaking
paper cutting and stencil
Your theme will be thinking about Life Cycles, Origins, Culture, or Rites of Passage. Think about what you want to do. Write down some ideas first. before beginning the sketching process. Next you will have a mini-conference with me and then you can get started on your final piece. You may be INSPIRED by a particular artist or their technique. You may not copy an image from the internet. I will provide some artists for you to investigate when you tell me what you are interested in making.
*Due by the end of this trimester- Tuesday November 28th end of class
1. stencil/ papel picado paper cutting project final version and experimentations
2. three curated prints with title and signature and experimentations- name on the back of everything
3. final project
4. completed Ancient Artifact/ Culture group project- make sure your name is at the bottom of each slide so I can keep track of who did what
5. artist statement for the piece you will hang up for Night of the Arts
requirements for the artist statement: what medium is the piece (example; spray paint and cut paper or charcoal drawing) what was your inspiration for the piece, any challenges you faced, how were you successful?
Trimester 2
Week of January 2-6
Investigation of Surrealist artists: Salvador Dali, Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Dorthea Tanning, Wilfredo Lam, Rene Magritte, Yves Yanguey, Georgio di Chirico, Leonora Carrington
-Surrealist collage in your Visual Journal
Choose 3 of the artists to investigate- do a Google image search
Choose your favorite from the 3 artists. In your Visual Journal (your sketchbook) write a definition of Surrealism in your own words. Next (on a separate piece of paper) take some notes about your artist and some of their pieces. Why is the artist interesting to you? What are some of the themes the artist works with (what is the art about). Describe one piece from the artist. What do you notice about it?
Due Wednesday January 11th: Group Googledoc on Ancient Artifacts and Culture AND journal work above
- Paint or collage a background for 2 opposite pages of your Visual Journal, hand-write the information about your artist. Add two pictures of your artist's work (can be black and white and hand colored OR sketches)
Here are some examples of IB Visual Journal pages
https://www.google.com/search?q=ib+visual+journal+artist+page&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=
Week of January 16-20
Choose either a small section or a large section of your collage to copy as a pencil drawing. Add VALUE by shading with your pencil alternatively, make this a charcoal drawing
due Friday January 20th- 2 pages in your Visual Journal (your sketchbook) on your artist including: information about your artist, your artist's name, photocopies of the artist's work, some color in the background. You may also make some sketches of your artist's images. The journal pages should be attractive and incorporate color.
Week of 23-27
due Wednesday January 25th- completed pencil drawing
in class Wednesday January 25th Ancient Artifact Presentations
Week of January 30th-February 3rd
The Sky is the Limit Project- Political Art Project
If you had an unlimited budget for materials, any space you wanted to use, and enough help to make your project happen, what would it look like?
Political Art: How have artists acted as agents for change throughout history?
3 pages in your Visual Journal:
page 1 Brainstorm political topics as a class, write on a page in your Visual Journal, choose one topic you want to focus on for your piece of art
pages 2 and 3- Project Planning Pages- work on developing ideas around your topic (sketches, collage, printed photos from the internet)
questions to figure out:
1. What medium or media will you use? metal? glass? paper? wood? video installation?
2. Is there a specific message you want to communicate about your topic or do you only want to create AWARENESS and information around the topic?
3. Where will your piece of art be located? How can you use the space effectively?
4. How can you engage your audience in multiple ways? Can you walk around your piece? Can you touch it? Taste it? Smell it? Hear it
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GHFhMJPkfsFv-GUX4rpsN_ihHNbtETASvy_JF9Cb68g/edit?usp=sharing
February 17th- Final Project Planning pages for "Sky's the Limit" due beginning of class
February 17th- Begin paper mache project. New notebook page titled: "Paper Mache Animal Trophy Project"- write down what animal you want to make. We will add decorating ideas to this page later. Today we'll make the armature out of paper and tape, possibly adding some strips of glue mixed with water. Next week will continue with sculpting.
February 20th- 24th- continue with paper mache project
February 27th- March 3rd- continue with paper mache project
WELCOME to TRIMESTER 3
*Reminder- Art is now only ONE day every OTHER week
April 21st- Today you will be making a drawing of an animal with chalk pastel. Review of the Color Wheel/ Color Theory focusing on monochromatic and the tints and shades. Chalk pastel techniques. Introduction to Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Evaluate method of art critique.
May 5th_ Art Critique
Choose 1 of the following works of art to Analyze. You will use the handout as a guideline. You will use the same method we followed to discuss "Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh. You may work alone or with a partner.
1. "What the Water Gave Me"- Frida Kahlo
2. "Nighthawks at the Diner"- Edward Hopper Seth, Joshua
3. "Guernica"- Pablo Picasso Ana Barbara, Ale
4. "The Raft of the Medusa"- Theodore Gericault Samuel
5. "Judith Beheading Holofernes"- Artemisia Gentileschi Henry, Mileidy
6. "Christina's World"- Andrew Wyeth Loona
7. " The Great Wave off Kanagawa"- Hokusai Rafa, Fausto, Mayan
8. "The Sleeping Gypsy"- Henry Rousseau Sebastian
9. " The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"- Albrecht Durer
10. "The Child's Bath"- Mary Cassatt
11. "at the Moulin Rouge" Toulouse L'Trec
Use the worksheet below to analyze your chosen piece of art
May 19h- DUE: Art Critique
In class you will be doing some sketching around the campus. You will then take the sketch and turn it into a larger, more complete drawing. We will focus on space, perspective, focal point and look at specific examples of landscape art.
May 26th- BUSINESS CLASS
May 31st- * extra art class begin watercolor paintings
June 2nd- work on watercolor paintings
June 9th- BUSINESS CLASS
June 16th-
DUE: watercolor landscape
- In class: liquid watercolors with oil pastel and sewing- figurative art
- choose artists for Art Critque #2
choices:
Andrew Wyeth
Jean- Michel Basquiat
Kiki Smith
Ana Mendiata
Georg Baselitz
Gustave Klimt
Amy Cutler
Assignment: Art Critique # 2
Send to me In a Google doc:
1. picture of your chosen artwork with:title of the artwork, artist, medium, date, dimensions
2. information about the artist and how the artists use the figure in his or her work
3. Formal Analysis- describe the artwork with as much detail as you can: includes the shapes, lines, colors, take about the composition (how everything is arranged in the artwork)
4. What is happening in the picture? What do you think the artist is trying to communicate with this work? How can you personally connect to the work?
This should be a full page of non-repetitive information
June 23rd-
Art Critique needs to be sent to me by Monday June 26th- before you leave for your field trip
Both completed watercolor paintings: landscape and figure are due by Monday, July 3rd at the latest!